This chronological survey explores Pascal's (162362) achievement as mathematician, physicist and religious thinker; it also has a chapter on his life. His work on conic sections, the probability calculus, number theory, cycloid curves and hydrostatics is considered in detail. Analyses of the Provincial Letters and the Thoughts bring out the many distinctive features, thematicnn and technical, of each text. Pascal's lesser known works are also studied. There is a chapter on the Wager argument. A wide-ranging bibliography completes the book.

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Book Title: Blaise Pascal
Book Subtitle: Mathematician, Physicist and Thinker about God
Authors: Donald Adamson
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230377028
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan London
eBook Packages: Palgrave Religion & Philosophy Collection, Philosophy and Religion (R0)
Copyright Information: Palgrave Macmillan, a division of Macmillan Publishers Limited 1995
Hardcover ISBN: 978-0-333-55036-6Published: 19 December 1994
eBook ISBN: 978-0-230-37702-8Published: 19 December 1994
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XII, 297
Topics: Philosophy of Religion, Physics, general, History of Philosophy, Mathematics, general

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Introduction

Foundations

Jansenism

A ‘God-Inebriated Man’

The Provincial Letters

The Christian Life

Human Nature

The Wager

The Scriptures

Pascal, ‘Devout Geometrician’

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